10-letter words containing c, o, n, t, r
- court hand — a style of handwriting formerly used in English law courts
- courtesans — Plural form of courtesan.
- covenanter — a person upholding the National Covenant of 1638 or the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 between Scotland and England to establish and defend Presbyterianism
- covenantor — a party who makes a promise and who is to perform the obligation expressed in a covenant
- coventrate — To devastate by heavy bombing.
- cover note — a certificate issued by an insurance company stating that a policy is operative: used as a temporary measure between the commencement of cover and the issue of the policy
- covermount — A covermount is a small gift attached to the front cover of a magazine.
- covertness — concealed; secret; disguised.
- craniotomy — any surgical incision into the skull, esp to expose the brain for neurosurgery
- creational — Of, or pertaining to creation.
- cremations — Plural form of cremation.
- cribration — the action of sifting, esp (in pharmacy) to separate finer particles of a drug from coarser particles
- crinolette — a steel framework worn under the skirt to distend its rear section, fashionable in the mid-18th century
- crispation — the act of curling or state of being curled
- criterions — Plural form of criterion.
- crocheting — Present participle of crochet.
- croissants — Plural form of croissant.
- cross-town — going across or following a route across a town
- croton bug — a small, winged cockroach (Blattella germanica); German cockroach
- croton oil — a yellowish-brown oil obtained from the plant Croton tiglium, formerly used as a drastic purgative
- crown post — any vertical member in a roof truss, especially a king post.
- crown rust — a disease of oats and other grasses, characterized by the formation, on the leaves, of orange or black spores, caused by a rust fungus, Puccinia coronata.
- crown wart — a disease of alfalfa and clover, characterized by galls around the base of the stem, caused by several fungi of the genus Urophlyctis.
- cruciation — (obsolete) torture; torment.
- crustation — the action of forming a crust
- cryoconite — a dark powder found at the bottom of glacier holes, formerly thought to be cosmic in origin but now widely regarded to be terrestrial
- cryogenist — of or relating to the production or use of very low temperatures: cryogenic storage.
- cryptopine — a poisonous alkaloid, C21H23NO5, found in opium
- cryptozoon — an extinct genus of algae from Precambrian and Cambrian times, forming irregularly hemispherical fossil colonies composed of layers of limy precipitate.
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- ctenophore — any marine invertebrate of the phylum Ctenophora, including the sea gooseberry and Venus's-girdle, whose body bears eight rows of fused cilia, for locomotion
- culbertson — Ely (ˈiːlaɪ). 1891–1955, US authority on contract bridge
- cunctatory — prone to delaying
- curbstones — Plural form of curbstone.
- cyanometer — an instrument used for measuring the blueness of the sky
- cyclotrons — Plural form of cyclotron.
- czernowitz — German name of Cernăuţi.
- declinator — a piece of apparatus that establishes the measure of a plane's deviation from the prime vertical or the meridian
- decolorant — able to decolour or bleach
- decontract — (ambitransitive) To expand from a contracted state.
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- decoration — The decoration of a room is its furniture, wallpaper, and ornaments.
- decreation — Destruction.
- decryption — to decode or decipher.
- deforciant — a person who wrongfully withholds something from someone by force
- detraction — a person, thing, circumstance, etc, that detracts
- dictionary — (as modifier)
- directions — the act or an instance of directing.
- disconcert — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
- discordant — being at variance; disagreeing; incongruous: discordant opinions.